Vietnam: How shall organizations violating provisions on nuclear control be sanctioned?

According to Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, sanctioning of administrative violations against provisions on nuclear control is prescribed as follows:

1. A fine of between VND 60,000,000 and 100,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations managing, using nuclear reactors for research; nuclear power plants; facilities enriching uranium and producing nuclear fuel; facilities re-producing, storing, treating and burying the used nuclear fuel; facilities containing nuclear materials, source nuclear materials with effective volume of more than 1 kilogram and conducting one of the following acts:

- Failing to submit the design dossier of facilities to competent state agencies before putting nuclear materials or source nuclear materials into facilities or before having changes in the design dossier;

- Failing to store dossiers of accounting nuclear during the time which the source nuclear materials, nuclear materials are contained at facilities.

2. A fine of between VND 200,000,000 and 400,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations conducting one of the following acts when managing, using nuclear facilities defined in Clause 1 of this Article:

- Failing to make accounting nuclear or failing to report on nuclear accounting results at the request of competent state agencies;

- Failing to perform measures to supervise the source of nuclear materials or nuclear materials.

3. A fine of between VND 50,000,000 and 80,000,000 shall be imposed for organizations conducting one of the following acts when using, storing nuclear materials, source nuclear materials with volume of equal to or more than 0.001 kilogram enriched uranium, 0.001 kilogram plutonium, 10 kilogram depleted uranium, 1 kilogram nature uranium or 1 kilogram thorium although they are not nuclear facilities as defined in Clause 1 of this Article:

- Failing to report information on using, place of using nuclear materials or source nuclear materials or any change about this information to competent state agencies;

- Failing to perform provisions in point a, point b Clause 1, point a Clause 2 of this Article. 

View more details at Decree No. 107/2013/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from November 15, 2013.

Ty Na

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